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LIFE

Front Cover
28 Dec 1959
190 pages
Vol. 47, No. 26
ISSN 0024-3019
Published by Time Inc
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
  

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Contents

Gay old days of high living
12
Rich, United States (Social life and customs)
Cause of breakthrough toward life of plenty
36
Automation
Time: Saturday a.m
53
Leisure, Concord (Mass.), Shenandoah (Iowa), United States (Social life and customs)
Leisure could mean a better civilization
62
Leisure, United States (Popular culture)
End of an elegant private play yard
64
Country estates
Pointers for playful fathers
125
Fathers
Good life goof: it's for the Eskimos
130
Eskimos
Up to her ears in good works
132
Cecil Roberts; 1892-1976, Volunteer service
Spare time creativity: summer workshops
139
Educational workshops
Joys of solitude and nature
148
Olaus Johan Murie; 1889-1963

$40 billion bill just for fun
69
Commercial products, Sporting goods, United States (Industries)
Good uses of their spare time by celebrated people
76
Celebrities, Hobbies
How do you rate in the new leisure?
85
Social classes
Here's a nail, do it yourself
90
Tools (Leasing and renting)
House one man built
92
Building
Big and busy U.S. playground
96
Recreation
Happy idle hours become a rat race
118
Idleness, Stress, Time management
Loafing: a big challenge to men and a laugh to wives
153
Idleness, Leisure
Man retires and works at finding ways to be busy
161
Retirement
How about tomorrow: a practical prophecy
168
Forecasting, Future, United States (Civilization)
Tomorrow: a prophecy
172
Alfred Whitney Griswold; 1906-1963, Victor Gruen; 1903-1980, Devereux Colt JOSEPHS
Love: the elixir of the good life
174
Love
Trip of tomorrow, today
185
Helicopters

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